I've pressed on with getting as much clay ready to use, as it does need to rest/mature...even though it must be at least seventeen years since I bought a ton of this clay!! What was finished today makes another five bagsful.
This afternoon's throwing...bud vases/bottles.. They will have lugs added, possibly tomorrow, depending on how fast they dry, with the raised humidity at present.. although the workshop is quite warm.
In the garden the tomatoes are slowly producing...these two ripe ones...
The Russian Black is quite sweet.
The Costeluto Fiorentino is not quite as sweet, but is beautifully tomato-ey!
And the plant that I thought was an onion squash... isn't....!
In the front garden the flowering "buffalo" currant has been affected by something...but is the only plant along the wall to be like this
Although the leaves are brown, scrape any branch and there is green living tissue.
The rest are steadily on the way to providing bird food. In fact thd blackbird was busy eating the rowanberries when I was standing there!
It has been quite a concentrated weekend, getting back into making ...but trying not to overdo things. The body knows what to do...it just hasn't done it for a while!!
Saturday evening was a nice break, going with a friend to a mutual friend's 50th birthday party in a village church hall!
Several generations of family (all cyclists) cycling friends, work friends and other friends..about forty of us!!
Today after a morning wedging and kneading three bags of clay, I went for a walk after lunch..checking the weather radar first!! Plenty of places are reporting heavy rain and thunder..All we had was some light showers Saturday lunchtime...then heavy rain Saturday evening. On Sunday the radar showed what I could see from the upstairs windows..rain passing both sides of the village!
While I walked the air was warm and close...
And you could see rain towards Arran
The rain arrived after my walk...good timing!!
The day was rounded off by a little sewing...
Just two corners and small border to add to Our Shirts....
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It may seem like I'm too busy..but there is so much to do. I've decided that I can do a little on several jobs every day.. enough at least to see progress. Then I won't be feeling guilty about neglecting anything. If something is near to being finished it will be worth pushing on with that.
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...a busy life can be a good life.
I'm waiting for beautifully red garden-fresh tomatoes like that here -- and then I will feast on Caprese Salad!
Your tomatoes look fabulous!
The pots look so graceful. I am in awe of your skill, and enjoy learning all that goes into this art. I really knew nothing about it.
That squash looks like a yellow zucchini. I ended up with some of those once.
I agree, keep moving ahead on all fronts if possible. If nothing else, it provides variety to life!
Amazing that the clay would "keep" that long and be rendered usable again. Some nice pots there. Great work on your quilt.
It is cooler here, and we've had some rain but avoided the torrential downpours that the east coast got. Royal Welsh week - and I have to go into town to post a parcel . . .
Clay can be rendered plastic again so long as it hasn't gone just over 500⁰C...ie the temperature at which quartz crystals undergo their first reversion...which is irreversible.
When you think how old seams of clay are....
Sometimes busy is awesome, because when you feel lazy you already have it in the bank!
The patchwork is stunning and makes me wish I hadn't redirected the collection of op-shop shirts I'd assembled for just that type of patchwork. (I turned most of them into painting smocks for kids.)
That is a good way to look at it!
There are always more shirts in op shops.....
Don't you love it when tomatoes start to come into their own? Loving the quilting patchwork and well done on the clay. You're rocking it!
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